overleap

American  

[oh-ver-leep] / ˌoʊ vərˈlip /

verb (used with object)

overleaped, overleapt, overleaping

1. to leap over or across.

   to overleap a fence.

2. to overreach (oneself ) by leaping too far.

   to overleap oneself with ambition.

3. to pass over or omit.

   to overleap important steps and reach erroneous conclusions.

4. Archaic. to leap farther than; outleap.

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Etymology

Origin of overleap

before 900; Middle English overlepen, Old English oferhlēapan. See over-, leap

Example Sentences

“But there are more significant hurdles,” she says: hurdles modern medicine hasn’t found a way to consistently overleap quite yet.

From Time • Nov. 30, 2016

Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap.

From Time Magazine Archive

"See the carp swim strongly against the rapids and overleap even the waterfall." said Mrs. Saito.

From Time Magazine Archive

Driving before a strong wind, the medanos speedily overleap all barriers, the lighter and more easily-propelled preceding the heavier like an advanced guard.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

Young diplomatists and young greyhounds run fast and overleap the game.

From Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

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